A war to be won: fighting the Second World War

Chronicles the military operations and tactics of World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945.

  • OCLC #: 43109827
  • ISBN #:
    • 067400163X
    • 9780674001633
    • 0674006801
    • 9780674006805
  • Call #: D743.M84 2000
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Physical Description: xiv, 656 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Contents:
    • Origins of a catastrophe
    • The revolution in military operations, 1919-1939
    • German designs, 1939-1940
    • Germany triumphant, 1940
    • Diversions in the Mediterranean and Balkans, 1940-1941
    • Barbarossa, 1941
    • The origins of the Asia-Pacific War, 1919-1941
    • The Japanese war of conquest, 1941-1942
    • The Asia-Pacific war, 1942-1944
    • The battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943
    • Year of decision for Germany, 1942
    • The combined bomber offensive, 1941-1945
    • The destruction of Japanese naval power, 1943-1944
    • The killing time, 1943-1944
    • The invasion of France, 1944
    • The end of Europe, 1944-1945
    • The destruction of the Japanese empire, 1944-1945
    • The end of the Asia-Pacific war, 1945
    • Peoples at war, 1937-1945
    • The aftermath of war.